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what do you all mean when you say someones acting is wooden |
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what do you all mean when you say someones acting is wooden
i always hear you all say someone's acting is wooden? I dont get it I always hear you all say his acting is wooden about lets say lee,dean just an example, but the same people say they really like shabnam? How s her acting less wooden than anyone elses? Other than the fact she talks like a robot and acts like a robot? Maybe im missing something but what would you call a wooden actor?
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I think it means where they fail to show the right amount of emotion when delivering their lines and they don't allow you to forget that they are just an actor.
For example when you're watching somebody like Phil, he's so natural you just forget he's an actor in a TV programme. He feels completely real. |
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what do you all mean when you say someones acting is wooden
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But actors are told ..'less is more' . They can't show OTT emotions all the time; none of us do in real life or we'd be in a special hospital. We contain our feelings and behave in an apropriate manner...which doesn't mean flinging our arms around, kicking and screaming and stuff. Actors try to show feelings in their eyes That's all.
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its when they can't act the lines, they say the lines as if reading a script or are basically themselves.
Also, there are actors that simply cannot act so are classed as wooden. |
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When they're like a puppet and don't put any real emotion into what they're doing and they come across as false and as if their heart's not in it!
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When they're like a puppet and don't put any real emotion into what they're doing and they come across as false and as if their heart's not in it!
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I've always thought that it is if the actor is not natural and you can tell they are just saying lines from a script.
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why do they say wooden why not plastic, glass, leather or bronze??
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Wooden Actor: Someone who displays all the emotion of a plank of wood; someone who wouldn't be out of place in a forest (figuratively); someone who doesn't convey emotion when acting; is robotic is movement and tone; appears unnatural; has a monotonous delivery; is genuinely a bad actor.
I don't think Shabnam fits the description of a wooden actor, as I think it's all part of her character to appear stand-offish and emotionless at times. |
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Well some people dont haven't had the chance to do that but some people still say there wooden
I haven't said that any actor is wooden, i'm not having a go, i'm just helping to answer your question! |
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Wooden as in deserving of a trip to the woodshed and to get a good thrashing with a wooden cricket bat.
Or as wooden as EE Patrick's allotment shed - Lee, for instance, would play the part of a good shed (he wouldn't need to give a different type of performance to the one he does now), rather than him being the Carter ex-soldier. |
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I know!
I haven't said that any actor is wooden, i'm not having a go, i'm just helping to answer your question! |
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'Wooden actors' are usually girls who have got the job either because of their looks or because they know somebody; but nobody bothered to check if they can act.
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I wasnt having a go either chill.
You could have just googled it you know! |
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You chill as well!
You could have just googled it you know! |
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man relax, geez
I know some actors haven't had the experience and don't come across as well as they/people would like and it's unfair if people don't give them a chance but I think when people call actors wooden they are referring to actors who just simply aren't very good! I'm not getting at you it's just that your first answer to my post seemed to come across as though you may have thought I was being unfair to the actors but I wasn't I was just meaning that some actors don't come across as well as others. Imo some of the actors in EE are top notch, others not so but I love them all and they all do a brilliant job! |
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I am totally calm and I am not a man!
I know some actors haven't had the experience and don't come across as well as they/people would like but I think when people call actors wooden they are referring to actors who just simply aren't very good! I'm not getting at you it's just that your first answer to my post seemed to come across as though you may have thought I was being unfair to the actors but I wasn't I was just meaning that some actors don't come across as well as others. Imo some of the actors in EE are top notch, others not so but I love them all and they all do a brilliant job! |
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I Meant just in general not just about you sorry if i didnt say it in the best way
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No lol I didnt mean it like that at all and maybe cut the exclamation marks it makes you seem really angry even though you probably dont mean it like that haha
No, i'm not angry just trying to emphasise a point, it's really hard when you can't hear someone's tone of voice, you can't always tell can you? I'll have to use more emoticons. ![]()
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A good example of a wooden actor would be Sonny in Hollyoaks. Completely no variation in tone or mood; he makes the trivial sound ridiculously important and the important sound trivial.
A wooden actor lacks chemistry with other actors and forces them to carry scenes. |
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why do they say wooden why not plastic, glass, leather or bronze??
![]() ![]() Mind you, Eastenders has had it's fair share of plastic gangsters, Andy Hunter, for example, so maybe plastic can apply, sometimes
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